Workers Press no. 782

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DESPERATE TORY

By our political correspondent THE TORIES took another day to shelve the docks dispu total war on the railwaymen.

Jack Jones was unex- pectedly invited to the Department of Employment headquarters yesterday to spend a friendly hour with Maurice Macmillan, the Tory Minister who two weeks ago was belligerently accusing union leaders of being 'bullies' While the tête-a-tête was in progress the president of the National Industrial Relations Court, Sir John Donaldson, was postponing further action against Jones and his Transport and General Workers' Union. What a changed Donaldson he was yesterday! Trade unionists will remem- May 12, Donaldson ber that on gave the union 21 days to 'put its house in order'. Having already fined the union £55,000 for contempt, Donald- warned that if the court's son orders were still being disobeyed -which they are then 'we shall be forced again to assert our and in an unmistak- authority, able way. The only thing unmistakable about Donaldson yesterday was that he had changed his tune completely. Like a benevolent school-

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master he told the lawyers: "The industrial problem to which we drew the attentien of the government, employers is now receiving and the union joint and urgent attention.

In those circumstances feel that the proper course for take is to suspend to the us injunctions until after judge- ment in the Court of Appeal.

(The Court of Appeal is currently hearing appeals by the T&GWU against fines and it for injunctions placed on blacking container firms at Liverpool and Hull docks. A

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other calculated step yester- s dispute so they can declare judgement is expected by next Wednesday.) The Tories are stroking Jones the cat with one hand while they prepare to throttle the kittens- railmen's leaders Greene, Buckton and Percy Coldrick-with the other. The Tories have calculated they can beat the railwaymen on their own, but not with a simultaneous national docks strike. policy Their appeasement towards the dockers, their talks about 'high-powered' committees into dock look labour the problems, amicable chats with Jonesthese make up a desperate gamble by the Tories to placate dockland. Today's meeting of the national shop stewards' committee London now assumes critical importance. The docks delegates were lulled into a sense of false security at their meeting on Thursday and postponed a showdown with the government for 14 days. The shop stewards must reject the phoney 'peace' formula being punted so vigorously by Tory ministers Tory. press, and Jones and his dock secretary Tim O'Leary. The Tories have no formula for peace on the docks. The formula which is that of the shipowners and port em- ployers is the same as it has been for the past ten years-to destroy thousands of jobs and to drive up productivity. The shop stewards must today make a stand against the Tory plans and the smokescreen of compromise created by their own union bureaucrats. The Tory gamble to split the

• SATURDAY JUNE 3, 1972

NEWSLETTER

• CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

T&GWU leaders Tim O'Leary and Jacl Employment yesterday. rails and docks fight can be completely disrupted by the stewards continuing their shop blacking action and calling for no postponement to the docks strike. Hull docks leader, Walter Cunningham, makes this clear in Walter Cunningham

WALTER CUNNING.

HAM, chairman of the Hull docks shop stewards, said yesterday that there is no basis at all for call- ing off the national docks strike. In an exclusive interview with Workers Press, he said: I don't think the docks delegates' in conference London on Thursday should have called it off. "The employers have offered nothing. Therefore there was nothing for us to discuss.

The strike should have gone ahead.' No. 782 4p

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/ and Jack Jones sharing a joke with the pre exclusive interview with an Workers Press on this page. The government is in a desper- ate position. It cannot take or powerful sections of both these trade unionists at once. Their gamble to temporarily hive-off the docks fight must be Railway workers and dockers should strike together, Walter Cunningham said. 'Both are in opposition to government and the National Industrial Relations Court,' he explained. It's a fight of both against the Industrial Relations Act.

"The local National Union of Railwaymen's branch in Hull has supported our refusal to co-operate with the Act.'

Referring to today's meeting shop the national port stewards' committee, he said: If the docks delegates should accept a compromise, it would be looked at very severely by the shop stewards. 'And in my opinion the only reason they could have post- poned the strike is because they wanted to accept a com- promise. Walter Cunningham went on: 'It's possible the employers may offer a bit on the fallback pay. "That's unacceptable because there shouldn't be anybody on it. Every man should be fully employed. The unattached regi- ster should only be for a tran- sitional period between jobs 14 days at the most. th the press outside the Department of detented and dockers in a com- dockers in a com- mon struggle. If both dockers and railway- men united against the govern- ment, it could be brought crash- ing down within a very short space of time. *During these 14 days there should be no loss of pay.

*The employers might come across with two days extra holiday, but the men won't it because the main accept issue is full employment. This means an attack on unregi- stered zation, Ports and on containeri- He added that the Mersey- side dockers' vote to continue "blacking' action was exactly as expected and it was in line with the decision of the national shop stewards. It proved there was no com- promise as far as the men were concerned. Walter Cunningham is cur- rently facing charges of con- tempt brought by the container firm Panalpina (Northern) Ltd.

He has boycotted the NIRC on three separate occasions.

What about the future? I still have no intention of going to court,' he says. I should attend on Monday.

But I won't be there. Nothing that has happened has changed my mind at all.

Workers Press explained the workings of the NIRC very clearly and in a way that people can understand.'

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DESPERATE TORY

By our political correspondent THE TORIES took another day to shelve the docks disput total war on the railwaymen.

Jack Jones was unex- pectedly invited to the Department of Employment headquarters yesterday to spend a friendly hour with Maurice Macmillan, the Tory Minister who two weeks ago was belligerently accusing union leaders of being 'bullies'. While the tête-a-tête was in progress the president of the National Industrial Relations Court, Sir John Donaldson, was postponing further action against Jones and his Transport and General Workers'" Union. What a changed Donaldson he was yesterday! Trade unionists will remem-. ber that on May 12, Donaldson gave the union 21 days to 'put its house in order'. Having already fined the union £55,000 for contempt, Donald- warned that if the court's son orders were still being disobeyed —which they are—then 'we shall be forced again to assert our authority, and in an unmistak- able' way'. The only thing unmistakable about Donaldson yesterday was that he had changed his tune- completely. school- Like a benevolent master he told the T&GWU lawyers: "The industrial problem to which we drew the attention the government, employers and the union is now receiving joint and urgent attention.

'In those citcumstances we feel that the proper course for take is to suspend the to us judge- injunctions until after ment in the Court of Appeal.'

(The Court of Appeal is currently hearing appeals by the

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against fines and injunctions placed on it for firms at blacking container Liverpool and Hull docks. A

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other calculated step yester- s dispute so they can declare judgement is expected by next Wednesday.) The Tories are stroking Jones the cat with one hand while they prepare to throttle the kittens railmen's leaders Greene, Buckton and Percy Coldrick-with the other. The Tories have calculated they can beat the railwaymen on their own, but not with a simultaneous national docks strike. policy Their appeasement towards the dockers, their talks committees about 'high-powered' into labour to look dock problems, the amicable chats with Jones-these make up a desperate gamble by the Tories to placate dockland. Today's meeting of the national stewards' in committee shop critical London now assumes importance. The docks delegates were lulled into a sense of false security at their meeting on Thursday and postponed a showdown with the government for 14 days. shop The stewards must reject the phoney 'peace' formula being punted so vigorously by Tory ministers the Tory press, and Jones and his dock secretary Tim O'Leary. The Tories have no formula for peace on the docks. The formula which is that of the shipowners and port em- ployers is the same as it has been for the past ten years-to destroy thousands of jobs and to drive up productivity. The shop stewards must today make a stand against the Tory plans and the smokescreen of compromise created by their own union bureaucrats. The Tory gamble to split the

NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JUNE 3, 1972

• CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

T&GWU leaders Tim O'Leary and Jack Employment yesterday. rails and docks fight can be completely disrupted the stewards continuing their shop blacking action and calling for no postponement to the docks strike. Hull docks Walter leader, Cunningham, makes this clear in Walter Cunningham

WALTER CUNNING.

HAM, chairman of the Hull docks shop stewards, said yesterday that there is no basis at all for call- ing off the national docks strike. In an exclusive interview with Workers Press, he said: I don't think the docks delegates' conference London on Thursday should have called it off. "The employers have offered nothing. Therefore there US was nothing for us to discuss.

The strike should have gone ahead.'

•SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

T&GWU leaders Tim O'Leary and Jack Jones sharing a joke with the press outside the Department of with Workers Uress on exclusive interview this page. 1 ne government is in a desper• ate position. It cannot take on powerful sections of both these made unionists ar once. Their gamble to temporarily hive-off the docks fight must be 'No compromise', says dockers' leader Railway workers and dockers Walter should strike together, Cunningnam Sale. 'Both are Postion he government and the National Industrial Relations Cours a next of ebo industriat fight Relations both against Act. the of The local National Union Railwaymen's branch in has supported refusal to co-operate with the Act. Referring to today's meeting of national port • stewards' he cocrs delecates Shoule iccept a compromise, it woul e looked at severely by very the And in my opinion the only shop stewaras they could have reason post because ponca me

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they wanted to accept a com- promise.' Walter Cunningham went on: Its possibie the employers may offer a bit on the fallback pa that's unacceptable because there shouldn't be anybody on it. Every should be fully man employed The unattached regi ster should onlv tran- sitional period between jobs 14 days at the most. Paperbacks Centre is now open at 28 Charlotte St, W1.

h the press outside the Department of defeated by the unity of rail- waymen and dockers in a com- mon struggle. If both dockers and railway- men united against the govern- ment, it could be brought crash- ing down within a very short space of time. 'During these 14 days there should be no loss of pay.

"The employers might come across with two days extra holiday, but the men won't it because the main accept issue is full employment. This means an attack on unregi- stered ports and on container- zation.' He added that the Mersey- side dockers' vote to continue "blacking' action was exactly as expected and it was in line with decision of • the the national shop stewards. It proved there no.com- was promise as far as the men were concerned. Walter Cunningham is cur- rently tacing charges of con- tempt brought by the container firm Panalpina (Northern) Ltd.

He has boycotted the NIRC on three separate occasions.

What about the future? I still have no intention of going to court, he says. 'I should attend on Monday.

But I won't be there. 'Nothing that has happened has changed my mind at all.

Workers Press has • explained the workings of the NIRC very clearly and in a way that people can understand.'

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday June 3,

BY JOHN SPENCER

TRADING relations between powers are deteriorating rapidl all-out trade war is being dis financial press. The sharp exchanges in Tokyo during this week's visit by Tory Trade Minister John Davies mark the latest stage in the downward spiral..

Kakuei, Tanaka, the Japanese cold-shouldered Minister, Trade his British visitor, saying he was too busy to spare more than a few minutes to see him. Davies retaliated with a press roundly denouncing conference Japanese tariffs and warning that Britain would restrict Japanese trade if the Tokyo government did not act to reduce exports.

The 'Financial Times' com- mented yesterday that 'the dan- gers of a serious deterioration of international trade relations' were at any time greater now than the monetary crisis last since year. ...there is no dis- It added guising the forces pushing a num- ber [of countries] towards pro- tectionism. or the danger that protectionist acts could lead to a chain reaction of retaliation?

trade Japan's huge surplus on balance is at the centre of the crisis. Despite the 16-per-cent revalua- agreed under tion of the yen American pressure at the end of last year, Japan's balance-of-pay- ments surplus continues to grow while the US trade balance has failed to improve. Washington has demanded in the most imperious terms that Japan take action to rectify this situation or the US will systema- tically close its markets to Jap- anese goods. Already, Japanese steelmakers and textile manufacturers have been forced to accept rigid quotas on their exports to the US, driv- ing the steel industry into its biggest recession since the war.

Last month, the United States intensive investigation began an of complaints about 'dumping' of Japanese goods on the American market and of the Tokyo govern- subsidies Japanese ment's to exporters. As the 'Financial Times' com- ments: 'The principal targets are Japanese: exports, but the : things it is almost of nature inevitable that these instruments,

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CORRESPONDENT

THE American blockade of North Vietnam-so far un. opposed by the Soviet Union China — is reportedly and causing serious problem for the liberation troops fighting in the South. One of the primary effects of the blockade has been to give Moscow and Peking far more control over the supply pipeline to the Vietnamese fighters.

They are now in a position to determine what happens on the battlefields under cover of the excuse that the US action has made transport more difficult.

It raises the danger that they will choke the Vietnamese revolu- tion in the interests of closer collaboration with Moscow, and with underlines the cynicism which the Kremlin originally greeted Nixon's blockade measures. US military sources in Saigon say the liberation ... . ... .. ay June 3, 1972 between the main capitalist g rapidly and the prospect of ing discussed openly in the once brought into play, will be used against goods from other countries as well'-that is, pri- marily against European goods.

Thwarted increasingly in the US, the Japanese manufacturers are desperately seeking new out- lets in Europe. Tanaka's first reaction to the latest US measures was to indi- that Europe took only a cate "relatively small share of Jap- anese total exports. 'We see the need to expand the share,' he warned. Now Davies is squealing about the danger of an invasion Japanese goods undercutting Bri- tish products. The next round of the conflict is expected the Finance when Ministers of the ten top capi- talist countries meet in Paris for THE FOUNDATION had been - laid for a new relationship between the two most power- ful nations on earth, President Nixon said on his return to America from his Moscow summit. He told a special joint session of Congress that the journeys to Peking and Moscow had freed the United States from 'per- petual confrontation'. The US had now moved towards mutual better understanding, point-by-point respect and settlement of differences with both of the major Communist powers. President Nixon listed all the reached in agreements Mos- cow, including those on strategic arms limitation, joint exploration, and space expansion of US-Soviet co- operation in areas of science and technology. There had also been an agree- ment to establish a joint com- mercial commission to complete negotiations for a comprehen- sive trade agreement, with the begun pulling back their heavy anti-aircraft artillery from the main battlefields apparently because supplies of ammunition running low. are said ground fire The sources US planes around the against besieged city of An Loc had 'dramatically over the fallen last few days, and there was also substantial reduction around Hué fire anti-aircraft farther North. of surface-air The number missiles fired at American planes has also declined, the Saigon sources say. The Americans claim the reason is the blockade and mining North Vietnamese of ports begun over three weeks ago. 'As the missiles are being used they are not replaced' the Saigon spokesman said. They were previously brought to Vietnam on the decks of Soviet and East European ships, he added. Davies three days, starting. on June 13.

: While the Minister discuss the international monetary crisis, their will representatives reviewing the balance-of-payments.

position of members of the Organization for Economic Co- operation and Development.

The trade struggles are intima- tely linked to the monetary col- lapse of August 15 last year and are equally insoluble by agree- between: * the capitalist • ment . powers. Ruthless trade war and mas- sive attacks on the working class in all the major, capitalist coun- tries are the outcome of this insurmountable crisis. final terms expected later this year. He specifically referred to the • Mos-. intentions expressed cow to proceed later this year with preparations for a Euro- pean collective security con- ference. The essence of this conference would be to prepare to take on the resurgent working class in both Eastern and Western Europe. Anti-strike move in THE NORWEGIAN government has decided to use its legal powers to end the country's first ever strike by civil servants which started on May 24. The strike by 400 of the Civil Servants' Union's 20,000 mem- bers is for more pay. Under Norwegian law the gov- ernment may ask parliament to end a strike by approving the findings of an official arbitration on both binding committee parties in a dispute. It is clear that the blockade is creating serious problems for without anti-aircraft supplies they cannot challenge the US air supremacy and their troops are to vicious bombing exposed attacks. The Soviet failure to challenge the Nixon blockade has been wrangles followed by lengthy Peking between Moscow and over port facilities in China.

The vital supplies on the decks of Soviet merchant vessels are now believed to be on their way back to Vladivostok, because the Chinese will not allow them to be off-loaded along their coast.

have not Overland supplies significantly increased since the blockade began, according to the US military. There is a growing danger that will the Vietnamese revolution become a bargaining counter in 'peaceful the pursuit of co- existence' between Stalinism and imperialism. RECENT union conferences have been a severe tax on union members' credibility. Never in the history of human conflict has so much reformist codswallop been uttered in such a short time-by such a disparate assortment of leaders.

First we had Victor Feather imploring the Tories to set up service'-a a 'conciliatory kind of confessional box on the National Industrial Relations steps of the Court scaffold. Then we had Labour's foremost patent-medicine man and faith healer, Harold Wilson, telling us that the answer to all the present troubles on the docks was to call in the man who started it all: Lord Devlin! Now we have the proposal of the boilermakers' union for the TUC 'to call a national stoppage of work" on the question of unemployment.

phrases is, in This motion, for all its militant-sounding fact, no different from the suggestions of Feather and Wilson since it makes no mention of forcing the Tories to resign and replacing them with a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. This reformist policy of the boilermakers is based on the assumption that the Tory government is like a stalled car. All it needs iș a push in the right direction and unemploy- ment will be solved. of the Stalinists of the British This is also the policy They believe that trade union pressure Communist Party. has forced unemployment below the million mark and, given sufficient pressure, it could be reduced to nothing by further reflation. So keep pushing, brothers!

This is dangerous nonsense, first, because it deflects workers' attention from the real causes •of unemployment and, secondly, because it dissipates the energy of workers in Utopian protests precisely at a time when the Tories are extremely vulnerable to a political assault by the working class. In this sense a strike against unemployment will prove as impotent and as ineffective as a strike against pollution.

This kind of 'single-issue' politics plays straight into the arms of the Tories. Capitalism: produces unemployment as surely as it pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of millions. As Marx who, like the boilermakers' leaders, pointed out to those telieved that there could be a separate solution to unemploy- ment under capitalism: The labouring population therefore produces, along with the accumulation of capital produced by it, the means by which itself is made relatively superflous, is turned into a relative surplus population; and it does this to an always increasing extent.

This is the law of population peculiar to the capitalist mode of production...

To get rid of unemployment is to prepare to destroy expropriate capitalism, the monopolies and destroy the credibility of union leaders like Danny McGarvey, the presi- •dent of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, who re- UCS struggle and helped pave the way for treated from the more unemployment on Clydeside. The only way to defend the right to work in a society based on low wages and un- employment is to build Councils of Action, embracing un- employed and employed workers, and securely establish the party by fighting within these councils for a revolutionary campaign to force the Tories out and elect a Labour govern- ment which will be forced to legislate these cherished rights.

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Iraq and trimmed their production to put Svria to nationalize oilfeld and economic pressure the transport facilities owned by the Ba'athist regime. Irag Petroleum Company is the In practice, however. the culmination of prolonged a nationalization is likely. to not over oil struggle revenues lead to an immediate oil short- between the big oil combines and age in Europe, which is already the national bourgeoisie.

glutted with surplus oil as a result of industrial recession.

It a time of crisis comes at in the oil industry, where profits The decision was naturally slumping drastically under greeted with enthusiastic approval are by the Iragi and Syrian masses, the impact of the world monetary who and trade crisis. have long watched angrily as the imperialists suck out their Iraqi president Ahmed Hassan wealth at rock-bottom national al-Bakr accused the

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of prices. 'cutting oil production to a point But the Iraqi bourgeoisie which was unprecedented in is oil-producing capable of carrying Iraa or any other not through thoroughgoing country'. revolutionary struggle against imperialism. Trag has recently moved closer This is indicated not only by the Soviet to Union: to the their promise to pay extent of •several Com- compens- taking ation for the nationalized install.

munist Party members into the if ations the companies settle Cabinet. their outstanding debts. but bi The USSR is also financing their leniency toward towards frenc development of a recently dis- stockholders of the öilfield North covered in positive attitudes shown by far from the Rumelia, not France towards Arab causes'. border with Syria. In fact, the Algerian govern- French forced This has inflamed the con- ment tu were flict with the imperialist oil intransigence to nationalize their undoubtedly oil and gas fields last year.

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JIM DOHERTY, a member Socialists, was gunned down shortly after leaving the Ver Crumlin Road. He received one bullet in the spine and, when he turned around, two in the in the chest and one stomach. This week, for the first time since his critical injuries, Jim has been able to talk about his experience. In this interview with a Workers Press correspondent he describes what happened.

p.m. to leave the girl home.

I left the place about 1.30 p.m.

or 1.45 p.m. and I decided to go and have a chip at the Venice Cafe. I was in the Venice, standing waiting on the order, and the woman who owns the place, in a statement which she gave, said that in one of the boxes at the end was a guy who was staring at me for the whole 20 minutes I was in. He had an overcoat pulled up to his neck, a gangster hat over his eyes. You could see his hair, fair gingerish hair. Anyway I got my order and just before walked out he walked out in front of me.

So I came out and walked 20 or 30 yards towards home.

This guy called me. He says to me that they were after trail- AN INCREASE in the poverty children in Bradford has been blam sunless British climate. The explanation came from the city's medical officer of health.

He was replying to a claim by a former Bradford doctor who said that rickets is 'rampant' in the city. Dr Kenneth Dawson, in an article in June's issue of "The Practitioner', said he had in- "22 cases of rickets vestigated while working at Bradford child- ren's hospital. I am convinced they were only the tip of the iceberg,' he said in the article. 'I was seeing some- think like two new cases a week.

'Rickets is a disease which is generally thought to have been this country, but eliminated it is said some babies suffering from the disease were fed on 'wine and potato crisps'.

Dr William Turner, the city MoH, agreed the disease was on especially among 'At the moment there are about 40 cases, mostly among children but some in adults ...

we are doing our best to educate people to improve their diet.'

A recent Birmingham survey among 600 teenaged schoolchild- ren showed that 4-5 per cent had rickets severely enough to be detected radiologically and 15-20 per cent had clinical and bio- chemical evidence of the disease.

ember of the Irish Young down on Sunday, April 30, he Venice cafe in Belfast's ing a guy from the Shankill Road. Would I give them a hand? So anyway I goes up. I under- stand now this was only to draw me into the light of the cafe.

Just with that one of my mates who had been in the cafe walked out. I was going to call him, but I say to myself-let him go just in case he gets into any trouble.

I turned round to look at my mate. Just then the first bullet hit me in the back, and as I swung around they fired another tiree hit me in which stomach. in the By then I was half cafe and half out. My legs were outside. My legs felt heavy. I couldn't move them. I was conscious at this. I heard a shout: 'You're all right now, just try to get into the cafe'. I managed to get my legs into the cafe. A porter from the hospital saw a black Vauxhall car driving.

up Clifton Street with no headlights. The porter says it went down Twickenham Street, one of the streets leading to a new housing estate built for people from the strongly Protestant Shankill Road district. But Jim considers the question overty disease of rickets among een blamed on poor diets and the A THREE-DAY strike by clerks at the Standard Triumph factory, Liverpool, has halted production of the new Toledo sports car and led to 1,250 workers being laid off. The production of bodies for other vehicles assembled at Coventry has also been heavily cut. The decision by the 230 clerks to continue their unofficial strike was reaffirmed on Thursday in the face of hostility from union leaders. Roy Grantham, general sécre- tary of the Association of Pro- fessional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staffs (APEX), had travelled to Liverpool to try and persuade the clerks to call the strike off. He was shouted down and jostled as he called for a return to work to allow negotiations to continue. Clerical grades at present receive between £25 and £29 a week. They. wanted the rates stepped up to a range between £30 and £40. Jom Doherty recovering at his Belfast I and people are lini of who shot him is irrelevant.

The important thing, he says, is it was done to keep Protestant and Catholic workers apart.

Jim is dating a Protestant girl and hopes to marry her. He says that sectarian divisions are deliberately being encouraged, referring to a strange aspect of his own case: The gun used was only a target-practice gun. So why use it except just to injure some- body and so keep the frying-pan hot? I am totally against the bomb- ing and the killing of the IRA.

On the other hand I'm totally against soldiers for killing and torturing innocent people.

I have read what the Protest- ants said about the paratroopers in the Woodstock; they came in just animals, wild like men, beating all in front of them.

The only movement is the movement we are in. Socialism is the only opposite to civil war.

We have to concentrate on this, going out to Protestants, and telling them what is really hap- pening. A woman from Crumlin in 1969 on TV said that the only electricians' 42-year-old union official has been appointed co-ordinator of the industrial ad- with the Department of visers Trade and Industry. He is K. J. Griffin, who will be on secondment to the depart- Chapple's Frank ment from EPTU. He takes up his appoint- ment on July 1. Sean O Brady, publicity direc- tor of the Provisional Sinn Fein, was remanded in custody until next Thursday when he appeared in Dublin District Court yester- day accused under the Offences Against the State Act. He is the of Rory brother O'Brady, president of Provisional Sinn Fein. On Thursday Rory and Joe Cahill, head of the Pro- visionals in Belfast, were also re- manded in custody on charges of belonging to an illegal organiza- tion. • Tory leader Edward Heath will visit Japan during the second half of September, it was announced yesterday. It will be the first visit to Japan by a British Prime Minister. Trade and Industry Secretary John Davies, has just returned from a trip to Tokyo where he received a frosty reception fróm Japanese big-business circles.

Workers Press, : , Belfast home way it could end would be in a bloodbath-the country finished and the people nowhere to go.

Vanguard has nothing to offer the Protestant people. Craig and Faulkner, what are they going to do about jobs and housing?

With both, it can only lead to civil war. So it is really up to us to start concentrating. I want this in Workers Press,

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The rest try to bluff it off, to sell more papers to make more money. People are dying here, and people are lining their pockets out of people dying. • Workers Press is the only paper that prints the truth about the facts Northern Ireland. This is an unedited version of Jim's personal views, exactly as he said them. We hope that he will as soon as possible be well and back in the struggle.

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GLASGOW: Tuesday June 6, 7.30 p.m. Room 1, Partick Burgh Hall. NORTH LONDON, Bricklayers Thursday June (nr White Hart Lane). CROYDON: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road. LUTON: Thuraday June 8, 8 p.m. St John Ambulance Brigade Hall, Lea Road. SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thurs.

day June 8, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club (opposite New Cross Station). SOUTHALL: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. Parkway Rooms (Rent Ottice), Racecourse Estate, Northolt. PRESTON: • Thursday June 8, 3.3,0 p.m. Railway, and Com- mercial 1 rail stn), Hotel nr Butler St. COALVILLE: Thuraday June 8, Miners' Welfare. 8 p.m. 'Organize Councils of Action'.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday June 3, 1972 By Philip Wade, Housing Correspondent Right in the centre of 1959 Hyams began the which were to make London stands a monu- multi-millionaire. ment to property specu- All his accumulated lators and financiers all property development y over the world. brought to bear on known company in Lan From almost any part of the Oldham Estate Con London's West End you can The company was a see the giant Post Office tower, a device used by prope looking like Britain's answer in the late 1950s an to the space race. You can in- 1960s before the variably see Centre Point as Exchange clamped dow well. A public compan Standing at the junction of needed to overcome th Tottenham Court Road and hazards in a private co Oxford Street is this 32-storey and it was cheaper to office block, empty now for existing company seven years. quotation on the stock It is unoccupied because its A 'shell' was essen Mr Harry owner, a certain company whose old l Iohn Hyams cannot find any- had been sold or was one willing to pay the rent he point of fading ou is demanding, which is put at advantages in buying c £1}m a year. the ability to insert Hyams is regarded as one assets into it without of the more enigmatic figures nearly so much inform: on the property scene. He has the investing public the unenviable reputation of Tequired on a conv owning more empty buildings floatation. in London than anyone else.

Hyams first heard of Yet the career of this man, in January 1959. Withir said to be worth about £30m night he was in the in personal wealth, and the northern town looking Oldham Estate Company, is no Victorian cottages and more than a record of the vast mills, which stood in tl fortunes made by post-war balance she pany's property speculators. £26,611. In 1945 Hyams was 17 and he went to work for Joe Levy's Levy estate agency. was a friend of his father, who was a bookmaker. After nine months Hyams With a few associ quit after some disagreements virtually bought up with Levy and joined one of share capital at a established the older, more Some about £50.000. estate agents who specialized were done through th in country houses. stock exchange to ke A coupie of years later he share quotation alive. the move again to was on In March 1959, when another agency, Dudley Samuel took control, Oldham & Harrison. On his first day owned properties there he took the entire staff 1967 £22,328. By out to an opulent West End £46,201,053. Today it 1 restaurant. well over £60m. during this period It was This astronomical ex that Hyams built up his sensi- was largely financed tive knowledge of an estate Just f rowed money. agent's work, the man who so came from shareholders often fixes the big property The key to expansi deals. undoubtedly the deci: link up with Europe's contractor, building Wimpey, who bought cent in Oldham. Wimpey had enormou In the middle-1950s Hyams cial resources which th established certain links with a to bring forwa man already established as a able financing new Oldham I dealer - Felix property The other Fenston. two sou finance for Hyams har By that time Fenston was worth about f4m. the Westminster Bank personally He was the man behind the Co-operative Insurance Building in which owns 10 per Empress State Court, the huge Oldham's shares. Earls BP Five years ago it w buildings in the Barbican, and mated that Hyams him the Royal Garden Hotel in made the vast fortune ( Kensington. The public best from property develop remembers Fenston as the man who pulled down the St James's staggering figure by a for Theatre to make way account. He is known for on development. Hyams spent a great deal of above all else: keep buildings empty for ye his time with Fenston, finding him lucrative projects to work year until they fetch t demanded. on for a cut in the subsequent Hyams once bought. equity holdings. shop and office in relationship couldn't. The last. Hyams had a personality Street, London, paying which equalled an anni and character of his own and I it clashed. with Fenston's. In of £12,500. His estate the moves ‹e him a ed skill in t was now • an un- ancashire, 'ompany. 'shell', perty men and early e Stock own on it. any was the surtax company, to buy an with a •k market. entially a : business as on the out. The , one was t private ut giving mation to • as was nventional of Oldham hin a fort- the small ng at the nd cotton the com- sheet at were told to let at f it remained unoc three years. It finally went fo year, which meant t was now worth £27 ducing £13,500 it been worth That capital gai weighed the loss on borrowed mone! any case could be tax, and the loss of rates had to t no properties empty days. In all the time amassing away from publici sible. It has been impossible to get n Even his admir ers. bourgeois press inaccessible. Hyams hides away at Manor, Wiltshire, tl former home of Lor These characteri above all the ones t Hyams to pull off Point coup. And it a story worth tellin The story begins 1956, when the 1 trolled London Col cil approved a plan the entire traffic the busy around Circus. The idea was to the properties circus and squeeze about. By 1958 bought several pock and in April of th Ministry of Transp a £627,000 grant. due to start at the year. However, the 3 om en mously complicate wrangle with the ow plots of land. Only to let at £20,000 and offer compensation on pre-war unoccupied for values, they couldn't persuade the owners to sell. And it was already October 1958. , went for £18,500 a It was this point that at h meant the building Harry Hyams appeared on the vorth £270,000. Pro- scene. The man who brought 3,500 it would have Hyams and the LCC together 1 £200,000. Harold was Lord pital gain far out- Wilson's solicitor. also he loss of interest represented Richard Edmonds, ed money, which in chairman of the LCC's town could be set against planning committee. he loss of rent. And Hyams proposed the follow- had to be paid on ing solution to the problem.

in those would buy Oldham Estate out the people refusing to sell the time he spent at a price which the LCC could vast property neither afford nor was allowed far Iyams kept as to pay. He would also buy up 1 publicity as pos- the rest of the site not already as been and still is, controlled by the LCC. to get near him. Then he would make an un- is admirers in the written 'land for planning per- find him mission' deal so that the LCC e. Hyams the recluse would end up with its road at Ramsbury and Hyams with his office iltshire, the £700,000 block. me of Lord Rootes. On August 12, 1959, the characteristics were planning application went in.

he ones that enabled By November it had been pull off the Centre approved with a strong recom- . And it certainly is mendation 'as it is the key to orth telling. the road scheme. cy begins on July 17, en the Labour-con- ndon County Coun- ed a plan to change traffic movement he busy St Giles Over the next year Oldham's much a was to buy up all agents bought up as could around the they lay property as Few sellers squeeze in a round- their hands on. 385-foot high 1958 they had knew that a office block would soon leap veral pockets of land out of the same ground. ril of that vear the By March 1962 all Hyams' of Transport agreed properties at St Giles had been Work grant. was given to the LCC and a lease rt at the end of the signed with the new freeholder the LCC had of the entire area. Under terms of the twined in an enor- the omplicated legal lease, Oldham was to pay the th the owners of key LCC the ludicrously-low sum nd. Only entitled to of €18,500 a year for a fixed Above: one of the few photo- graphs of Harry Hyams, here with his wite. period of 150 years. It was most unusual for such an agreement to contain no rent revision clause. For a 'gift' of £1.5m worth of land, Hyams got permission to build 150,000 square feet of offices, 9,000 square feet of restaurant space, 26,000 square feet of showroom units, 29,000 and square feet of shops 35,000 square feet of maisonettes. To the £1.5m you could add £3.5m for construction and interest charges giving a total of £5m. If and when it is let for an annual rent of at least £1.5m the building will be then worth a capital sum of about £20m- a cool £15m profit. The man who was very much a key figure in the deal was the man who has designed more office blocks than anyone else-—architect Richard Seifert.

He was an expert in squeezing the maximum amount of footage out of a square planning permission. When he nad hnished with Centre Point, the ratio of its area to the land it stood on was twice as much as that normally per- mitted in central London.

As for the poor old LCC, it really took a hammering. By the time Centre Point was finished Ernest Marples, then Minister of Transport, changed the road system. Tottenham Court Road and Charing Cross Road became one way and the roundabout project never got further than the surveyor's measurements. There are now rumours that Centre Point could finally be let and Hyams would have completed the most famous kill of all time.

POWER BID BY ISLAND'S ARMY

The army has taken over in Madagascar following the bitter clashes which began on May 13. The effective power is now concentrated in the hands of General Gabriel Ramanantsoa, the new premier. His Cabinet, announced on May 27, contains five officers, all in key posts, and five civilians. Ramanantsoa was in- stalled with full personal May 18 by powers on Madagascar's extreme anti- communist president Philibert Tsiranana. had acquired Ramanantsoa progressive' which a aura, made him acceptable at least to the less-militant trade union leaders. Soon after his appoint- ment, the unions called off 10449 their General Strike against the regime, though there were bitter arguments between these leaders and the students whose whose demonstrations had sparked the disturbances.

The new strongman soon showed his real colours, however. Describing Tsiranana as 'the father of independence' and 'the incarnation of national unity', he refused all demands president's to force the resignation. This had been one of the key slogans of the mass demonstrations in the country's capital, Tananarive. Tsiranana himself told the populace: 'I am and will remain president of the republic'. However, it seems clear that- for the moment at least-the mainspring of power is out of his hands. Cabinet The •was new announced some days after the military appointment..... of governors fom the six Malagasy provinces. Ramanantsoa him- self took over not only as premier but also as Minister National Defence and Minister of Planning. The commander of the National Gendarmerie, Lt-Col Ratsimandrava, Richard became Minister of the Interior; Capt Didier Ratsiraka, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Gilles Andriamahazo, Gen Land Minister; and Com- Rakotomalala, mander Joel Minister of Information. The main ministers in Tsiranana's previous Cabinet, some of whom had held office since independence in 1960, have been pushed out by the military, but no representatives from the opposition have been admitted to the Cabinet. It seems certain that the island, with a garrison of more than 4,000 French troops, will remain firmly tied to metro- France. politan Madagascar Workers Press, Tsiranana: handed over the power to the military. has considerable strategic im- portance—particularly for the white racialists struggling to maintain their hold over southern Africa. wrote in C. L. Sulzberger the 'New York Times' on May 17: 'Madagascar dominates the channel off Mozambique Africa's east coast and the m- route of those enormous super-tankers which have been carrying Europe's oil around the Cape of Good Hope ever since the Suez Canal was closed five years ago. •Moreover, it is a strategic key to southern Africa and the western and southern Indian Ocean.' The new regime has plainly set itself the task of keeping Madagascar firmly as a base despite the for imperialism opposition of the workers and car students. ara Press, Saturday June 3, 1972 PAGE 5 Brezhnev: Car fancier Leonid Brezhnev now has a splendid choice of vehicles to carry him to and from the Kremlin each day. Shortly before leaving Mos- cow, President Nixon gave a Cadillac limousine to the Soviet Communist Party leader, a car fancier. A US source said that the vehicle was a regular produc- tion model and that a Nixon representative took delivery of it an hour after it came off the assembly line. President Georges Pompi- dou of France gave Brezhnev a Citroën-Maserati when he paid a state visit to France last October. it was announced Earlier, that President and Mrs Nixon had given a porcelain chess set to the Soviet Union's people and clocks to its leaders.

The chess set consists of elaborately-decorated pieces up inches tall to seven on a matching porcelain and walnut It bears inscription the USSR' and the US presi- dential seal. The clocks given to the three leaders were encased in glass and various minerals from the United States. The one for Brezhnev was set in red petrified wood from Nixon's home state, California, premier Alexei Kosygin's was Nixon: Red chessmen set in green • and salmon- coloured granite from Ten- nessee and President Nikolai Podgorny's in grey, green and tan stone from Utah. The clocks are seven inches tall and ten inches wide.

The Nixons presented a large porcelain group of birds and flowers on a walnut base with the presidential seal to the wives of Brezhney and Kosygin's Podgorny and to daughter, Mrs Ludmilla Gvishi- ani. The premier is a widower.

PRESTON DOCKERS FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO WORK

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday June 3, 1972

BY A SPECIAL

CORRESPONDENT

Dock work started at Preston in 1179, when the its first port received charter from Henry II. Today it is one of the most highly-containerized ports in the country. Its recent history highlights the issues in the present jobs row. Since the early 1950s, when the port employed about 450 almost 180 jobs have men, been lost. Norman Wright, Today leadér of the 273 dockers still in work, fears they could face a further 53-per-cent redun- dancy if current trends con- tinue and the port employers get their own way. But he and are determined not his men to allow this. Figures compiled by Work- ers Press show a 4-per-cent in the number of increase ships using the port last year alongside a 27 cent per decrease in the number of dockers. Norman Wright calculated that under the present mann- ing schemes, the eight ships week Preston is now averag- ing would need only about 88 men to work them. 'If we then included 20 men on warehouse work who could swapped around to do be there cargo-handling when was an overflow of work, this would mean the port only needed 108 men, plus 20 to cover sickness and holidays', he says. 'This could mean a reduc- tion of the working week down to 20 hours, but of course the management are only interes- ted in keeping their profits.

They'll improve our never conditions without a fight.'

redundancies Already 50 have been hinted at publicly but the by the employers, dockers know this is by no means the whole story. unemployment in the With area pushing towards the 6-per- cent mark there are no takers for voluntary retirement. Pres- ton is firmly behind the call for national action. The dock- ers there have a history of struggle. The port first gained pro- minence as a trading centre in the 19th century. The growing Lanca- cotton trade and the shire coal-pits were the impetus for this growth. By 1882 the Ribble Naviga- tion Undertaking had been purchased by Preston Corpo- ration for £73,000. Immediately purchase on they put forward proposals for the enlargement of the docks, which caused the local rate- payers to strongly condemn the move and refuse to pay the extra rates. A government in- quiry was set up and this gave Authority the go-ahead. the In 1892 a new wet dock was opened. The Albert Edward dock was at that time the largest single dock in the country with a water area of 40 acres.

But with the decline of the cotton trade and the closure of pits the traditional trade of the port has rapidly declined: the export of coal has fallen tons in 1948 to from 416,198 138,446 in 1971, and the tim- ber trade has fallen in the same period from 86,487 tons to 38,765. During the period of infla- tionary boom following World War Il, the port authority introduced enormous capital- which have intensive schemes nearly halved the labour force since 1950. But the enormous increase in productivity over the last come up against decade has the dockers' of new sense power, which they gained in ten-and-a-half week strike in 1969. When it began, in June 1969, dockers elected shop the stewards for the first time.

These men had just seen the number of dockers fall from Just 385 in 1966 by a further 100, 70 through severance schemes and 30 through retirement and normal wastage. Total trade in from the had risen port 984,235 in 1948, when there were 450 men, to 1,901,120 in 1969. The strike was no coinci- dence; it was strictly over the employers' attempted introduc- tion of Phase I of the Devlin "modernization' scheme. As Norman Wright says: "The strike started over rate- fixing, but we knew what it was basically about. 'The employers wanted to introduce a £ll.fp basic rate with a £2 modernization bonus.

There would be a make-up to a guaranteed £16, but the could make you employers work overtime and end piece rates to get you to that f16 After the strike they got a 40-hour week with a guaran- teed £16 even if they went home, and £17 if there was day work. Just before the strike, the employers had even tried to Phase Il in int cauce Deviin the same pickage deal by offer- ing a 20-per-cent increase with a view to reducing gangs and without any guaranteed wage.

No more has been heard about this scheme. The strike also won a 12t- per-cent increase all round on piece work and the dockers award broke arbitration an which had gone against them.

manning This had reduced scales from eight to six men on storing cargo on the quay, and its overthrow is a key component in the present cri- sis on the docks. _ For Preston is, as we have said, now one of the most highly-containerized ports in the country. container consti- Trade by 1971 tons in tuted 1,523,173 of of total out tonnage a 2,215,152. The container trade has leapt follows: 1948, 6,025 tons; 1958, 524,189 tons; 1,240,811; 1969, and 1970, 1,502,782. This was despite the 1969 strike. Since 1969, the dockers have their negotiations done all themselves. They became dis- illusioned with the Transport General Workers' Union and leadership when it refused to make their strike official.

the local These days

T&GWU

district secretary, Tommy Irving, is left out of all fights with management. But he has found a role for himself. He acts as chairman or arbitrator between the two sides. This embarrassing position was highlighted in recent nego- tiations on the docks; the em- ployers were demanding dock- ers lift their "blacking' of con- tainer firms and raised the question of the 50 threatened redundancies. When no concessions were even hinted at, and with the management pointing out that there was no chance of com- promise on the issues involv- ed, the shop stewards left the meeting. Irving remained to talk, but the stewards are still wondering what about. Preston docks are in no way separate from the general crisis of capitalism. Their operating surplus has from £231,776 in the fallen financial year 1968-1969, to a deficit of £65,645 in 1969- 1970, the year of the strike, and a surplus of £147,495 in 1970-1971. The borough treasurer blames the strike for this dec- line. But a ten-week strike on the operating side of the bal- ance-sheet cannot explain the drop by itself. The strike was only for one- of fifth of the year. One-fifth the trading surplus of 1968- 1969 is about £46,000. But the port lost almost £300,000 in profit from 1968- 1969-1970. Over 1969 to £190,000 of the net deficit of £228,631 in the year 1968- of interest 1969 is made up charges. At the same time the show that the accounts revenue of the port actually Workers Press, Saturd

WRITTE

went up 0.1-per-cent in the period — highlighting same again the relative decline in profits over the period, regard- less of the strike. Norman Wright has ana- lysed some of the figures com- piled by Workers Press. 'In 1971', he says, 'the num- ber of ships using the port was 2,867. This was an increase of 116 over the previous year, though 100 dockers left the port. "There is now a prospect of massive redundancies on this dock?' The figures have startled dockers' leaders. They had not realized the enormous increase in productivity that they had allowed on the dock. Until 1969, shift had a worked for eight hours with- out stopping, even if this meant transferring from one ship to another. Since the strike they now stop after completing a boat regardless of whether their eight hours has been worked or not. lorkers Presa, Saturday June 3, 1972 PAGE 7.

Above: Preston dockers at the mass meeting which decided to black Containerways, the con- tainer firm. There is also a growing realization that there is no solely trade union solution to the problem. For the road- transport men of the T&GWU have said that they want the jobs which have gradually gone away from them to registered dockers. Yet they do not want to be registered themselves.

"If Norman Wright says: were doing stuffing dockers stripping and registered as dock work we would increase manning scales and there need be no redundancies for road- transport men or dockers. But employers can't afford registered dockers, so the diff- erent parts of the union are fighting each other. 'Management are laughing at them. What we should be doing is uniting and fighting against the employers instead of amongst ourselves. But our leaders don't lead.'

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday June 3, 1972

AT THE

COURT OF

MANDEL

FROM ANNA TATE IN PARIS

Communism 'Left-Wing Infantile Disorder' An Lenin makes it clear that the Bolshevism 'grew took up, shape, and became steeled in long years of struggle against petty-bourgeois revolulion- which smacks of, ism, borrows something from, falls anarchism, and which essential, short, in anything of the conditions and require.

ments of a consistently pro- letarian class struggle'.

During these few days in Paris my observation ot the of the Ligue Com- activities (the Communist Mandel) of Ernest leads to the that conclusion ine invaluable ponlical signalled by Lenin has been entirely rejected by Mandel's followers. Comrades of the Workers Press will forgive me if I begin this con- my justification clusion by a comic illustration of a meeting which I attended.

The meeting itself was, after all, a circus of centrism, defy- ing description. more serious The Ligue vandeve consistently Communiste has put all its political eggs into of the basket single-issue politics. Unable, in any way, learn from past mistakes. from the sterility of the Solidarity Campaign Vietnam in England or from the capitu- lationist amalgamations | which indulged in during events of May-June 1968 they since in France, have. over a year ago, thrown them- selves into a 'Front Solidarité Chine' -Front for Solid- Indo arity with Indo-China.

OPPORTUNISM

People of all tendencies communities, from factories, and universities schools ai c called upon to make Collid The cause against imperialism.

sentiment is fine, the politics those of sheer opportunism. demands In no way are the linked to, nor do they stem from movement of class the forces in France. world crisis of capital ine and the profound effects which it is having on the bourgeoisie and of that the proletariat country are ignored or related to a position of secondary 1m- portance in favour of a protest Indo- 'solidarity' with Tne Chinese neople, who with their lives are proving to the world not protest which that it 1s impedes the barbarism of capitalism. The only valid solidarity lies in the building of cadres the revolutionary parties in bastions of capital of the This Man- western countries. у June 3, 1972 del's followers reject, and in so doing cut themselves off from the mass base of the French working class. meeting of The the FSI which I attended was part of a 'Day of Solidarity. with the Indo-Chinese People' held at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris. Given that the political justification for the existence of the solidarity tront seems 'consciousness- to be that of raising, let me declare with firmness that my consciousness was not raised one iota, that I have relevant seen more analysis in one article of the Workers Press on Vietnam than occurred in three inter- minable hours of sterile repetition of slogans which might have been picked en- tirely from the "Peking Review' In fact, it seemed that con- sciousness was driven scream- ing with alienation out of the lecture theatre. The meeting, in spite of 'leading' speakers, began with about 40 students the audience and ended with about a dozen, most of whom were 'cadres' of the FSI.

They had, in any event, heard same dreary denunciations of 'the puppets of American imperialism' many times before. And they had seen the inevitable slides US of atrocities projected as often.

• of this The bankruptcy political approach, both to the to its Vietnam and war relationship with the situation in France (which was never mentioned), reminded me strongly of what Lenin had For these young indeed 'driven to frenzy' by an impressionistic appreciation of 'the horrors of capitalism' and they do constitute 'a social which, like pnenomenon anarchism, is characteristic of all capitalist countries.

And, as Lenin rightly stafed: "The instability of such revolu- tionism, its barrenness, its liability to become swiftly transformed into submission, apathy, fantasy, and even a "frenzied" infatuation with one or another bourgeois "fad"- all this is a matter of common knowledge.' It seemed also that it was very barrenness of their the the Ligue activity within Communiste, without a real principled theory and practice in the French working based class that had led to a 'frenzied' identification with the more real, heroic struggle of the peasants of Indo-China.

Political displacement behaviour which will further ¡solute the Mandel group from the French proletariat. The notion of an all- ne

VICTORE OU

BLUTENA RE ENDOCHINOIS

ERRE-E

Top: Ligue Communiste Above: Students take part in a 'Day of Solidarity' call by the FSI alliance which the embracing Ligue upholds is also in for a battering. Their paper constantly 'Rouge' testined the impossibility of opportun- istic amalgams based on political and ideological im- maturity. The immaturity is certainly there. of After a certain number

FSI

Ligue Communiste and members had been beaten the French Communist Party demonstration at a with Indo-China solidarity May 10, although the innocent shoutinites Unity had merely been for shouting Indo- China' and Imperialism-the only enemy', the reaction from the

FSI

was one of pained surprise and a renewed call for unity. the CP. Their letter to dominated Vietnam move- ment reads: , 'At this time when itis necessary to create the broad-

MINOIS

emonstration—under the banner of the Front a 'Day of Solidarity' call by the FSI.

est unity in support of the Indo-Chinese comrades, we take the liberty of asking you to clarity your position on these matters and to see that future demonstrations occur unity. While awaiting with your reply, we extend to you, comrades, our fraternal greet- ings.'

IMPATIENCE

Communiste, The Ligue which unashamedly names it- self Trotskyist, would do well to re-read Trotsky on 'Strategy and Tactics in the Imperialist Epoch' where he clearly and absolutely correctly states: • dare to ...you must never merge, mix, or combine your party organization with own an alien one... undertake no such steps as lead directly or indirectly, openly or maskedly, to the subordination of your party to other parties... You shall not mix the banners, let

PIERS

he Front for Solidarity with Indo-China.

alone kneel before another banner. It is the worst and dangerous thing if a most manoeuvre arises out of the impatient opportunistic endea- vour to outstrip the develop- ment of one's own party and to leap over the necessary of its development (it stages is precisely here that no stages must be leaped over), by bind- ing, combining, and uniting superficially, fraudently, diplo- through combina- matically, tions and trickery, organiza- tions and elements that pull in opposite direction. Such experiments, always dangerous, are fatal to young and weak parties.' At this stage of history, when the battle against cen- trism must be fought with and determinatio.. surength the followers of Mandel mani- fest only impatience and opportunism being , themselves caught in the whirlpool of centrist politics.

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

In their obituaries last week to Denis Nowell Pritt, QC, the Tory papers presented a pic- ture of a successful bar- rister with an eccentric attachment to the Soviet Union. The 'Daily Telegraph' spoke of his 'almost quixotic enthu- siasm for the underdog, that led him into the bayways of communism'. A famous defender of colo- nial leaders like Kenyatta against the oppression of Bri- tish imperialism, his 'extreme Marxist beliefs' were depicted as a result of misguided liberal- ism. his autobiography, as in In his life Pritt cultivated the image of an English gentleman, shrewd lawyer, but some- a thing of an innocent in poli- tics. And it is in considering this mask of innocence that the mystery of Pritt emerges. For this former Labour MP and member of Labour's National Executive Committee was much more than 'fellow a traveller' of the Stalinists.

Pritt never joined the Com- Party-and munist never explained why not. In his auto- biography, he tells us how he to read Marxism in started 1941, long after his devoted work for Stalinism had begun.

It was a struggle, but it, and I gradually mastered think I may fairly call myself a Marxist.' (Vol. I, p. 292.) He to unspecified 'dis- also refers agreements' with the CP 'about the war'. (Ibid. p. 299.)

As in other aspects of Pritt's career, it is precisely innocence the appearance of that is most suspicious. For in the period 1939-1941, Pritt actually emerged as one of the leading figures in British Stalin- ism, second only to R. Palme Dutt. When the Stalin-Hitler Pact was announced on August 23, 1939, many CP members were shaken and confused. But not Pritt. as September 6, 'As early he writes, 'I came to the con- clusion that I had studied the British press and the speeches of the Soviet leaders suffi- ciently to get my mind clear about the Soviet-German Pact; and I thought it useful to put my thoughts on record- for or that of my own use friends — and within a week I had ready a duplicated docu- ment, about 5,000 words in length, which I sent to a few friends for comment? (Ibid. p.

195.) By the beginning of October, Pritt's book 'Light on Mos- cow' had been published by giving the Stalinist Penguin, "justification' for the Pact. (An account of this book is given in 'Stalinism in Britain', by Robert Black, New Park Pub- lications pp. 98-101.) In this difficult time for the Stalinist leaders, Pritt played a vital role in selling the new line to the rank-and-file CP members. But it had been three years earlier, at the time of the first of the Moscow frame-up trials, that Pritt had made his biggest contribution to Stalin's cause. He writes about his second visit to the USSR (his first was in 1932, in a Fabian delegation) like this: "While we were still in Mos- cow, indeed just as we were arranging to go to Yalta, the announcement was made that Zinoviev, Kamenev and some 14 other people were to be

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rorist conspiracies i vernt to canc ought to cancel would be behaviour state anti-Soviet thought the professing had on the for ticket of And through took the Bolshevism The trial 25, death and September, the printed. biography monstrous people were trial was and his Zinovier or murder say grave For, f they whole tion as a lows and a other high prosecutor, number By the were STillen. in the he colice pamphlet, or Hotel the hagen, where 1932 Apart 1, had been lications.) tried for taking part in ter- against the wife said that my trip to "hullabaloo" England with try people most very tired, My wife English press Moscow trial attend the deal of good 109.) perrormance leaders of their re- started By August had been plotting with sentenced By early pamphlet written and fraud, many They much in of In "The could conspired to Voroshi- they did, are dismiss the the fol- that Stalin of including themselves to of fair persons.' these words Pritt well (there was his anywhere else. of these, Copen- the defendant the fact that 'Behind the Published in the his pamphlet, of the account Britain with Pritt. And the of omission hardly likely to hav Holtzmar dental, is to the Hotel Joseph Redman and the Mo nists in Moscow New Park 1 logy', Perhaps the inno Counsellor never widely written abo cussed, however. pamphlet attackin viev trial Pritt, dryway. craft Trial in Moss Austrian Friedriec In his autobiog wrote: "I had a fur able proof of the the tility to Labour the A month or two l pamphlet lished a Austrian an who had of course trial, the ceedings by the wash the trial, with a copy advance to so! 'There was not, word of truth in a heard of the never anything until the announc made was or two before it st port House had no what the facts me how I came to att nor indeed commu at all me the first I heard phlet was when s me of it was published. Vas trai co libe it was plainly and wondered wnetner paranoiacs in Tran not be so brought a them and But I court. was portant that the better ele working class-of were of course Labour Party- to the courts.' (Op In the his fellow St and been similarly world. dared to tak court, and sla be exposed. ed in the same month verbatim trial appeared with foreword by most serious this publication Holtzman's referen Bristol! . (See 'British Stali. the Moscow Trials' Trials Antho- Park Publications, the innocent Queen's never heard about 'con- had They been itten about and dis- At least one attacking the Zino- had been read by "The Witch- 1 in Moscow by the Friedriech Adler autobiography, Pritt had a further remark- depth of hos. socialist state 11 leadership. written by social democrat describing the pro and 'witchcraft' that I had been hired viet Union to white. and provided the dossier do was not, of course, a ruth in all this; I had rd of the trial of connected with it, announcement of it Moscow day fore it started. Trans se had not even aske the facts were as to ne to attend the trial, d communicated on the ar matter, I heard of the pam when someone told some days after and saw tha for time a would teach the s in Transport House anti-Soviet if I against forced them dge the truth in oper t I soon decided no of variety knowledge the better elements of the class—of whom there the many in recourse Pritt past 36 years fellow Stalinists have "libelled' all over once have d to take the matter where they knew and slanders would Workers Proce Pritt's pamphlet and his other efforts to cover up the bloody work of Stalin's mur- der machine were of vital importance for Stalinism in 1936-1939. Every Stalinist could point to the certificate of authenticity drawn up by the innocent Pritt, an 'indepen- dent' Labour MP, and an 'expert on Soviet law. In January 1937, the second of the GPU's show trials began, with Radek and Piatakov as chief defendants. A whole book was rushed out, written by wie Dudley Collard, called 'Soviet Justice and the Trial of Radek'. Pritt contributed an introduction to this. In 1956, when Khrushchev revealed that the trials were only part of Stalin's murder campaign in which thousands of communists perished, Col- lard made a statement renounc- his book. ing and regretting But Pritt continued to brazen it out, right to the end.

Who, then, was Pritt? It is pointless to speculate the precise form of the on relationship cemented between the English lawyer and the counter-revolutionary thugs who had usurped the leader- ship of the first workers' state.

But for 40 years, without wavering for a moment, Pritt faithfully followed every twist and turn ordered by his Mos- cow masters. There are many Stalinists, reactionary and unprincipled as they are, whose political development can be seen as a perversion of an initial adher- to communism and the ence Russian Revolution. Pritt's career cannot be understood in this way. Far from being a 'dupe' of Stalin, his studied innocence was part of the most conscious effort to cover up the crimes of the betrayers of the revolution. Pritt is dead, and others of his generation of Stalinists ended their lives have of treachery to the working class or are about to do so. But a new crop, trained by their pre- decessors, fight to continue their work. Pritt came to the fore at the time of the worst defeats and betrayals of the working class, when the struggle for principles was most difficult.

The Jimmy Reids and Monty Johnstones face a period of powerful revolutionary upsurge, where Trotskyism is able to win a generation of workers to Marxist theory. Even with the aid of Stalin's torturers and assassins, Pritt could not break the continuity of struggle of our moyement.

His successors will work as.

hard and stoop as low, but they will never be able to stop uS.. are Presa, securday durno 3, 1972 PROR 9 genius Some management in the United States has come up with a new scheme to cut industrial disputes. It's a Dial-a-Boss pro- The idea is that if gramme. you have a grouch you pick up the phone and speak to a tape- recording machine. The com- plaint is recorded and sent to management to be dealt with.

The beauty of the-scheme, say the manufacturers, is that it is anonymous. It also means they are speedily dealt with.

Seems to be a scheme to encourage narks of every des- cription. that use computers for Firms arranging dates claim the utmost respectability and con- fidentiality. May be so, but some of the forms one is asked to fill in are a bit odd.

A question listed on one dating agency's form is this: Is communism a vice which should be eradicated from the face of the earth?' item is certainly not One general suffering from the battle in the United States to drive down inflation. That is the presidential inauguration ceremony. This ersatz coronation cost the $347,000 American public when President Nixon was 'crowned' for the first time.

Nixon: $347,000

CBS

Roosevelt: 500 backs But the figure has been doubled to pay for the next inauguration later this due year-a total of $650,000 has been set aside for the ceremony-Oh for the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt; his thrash cost a modest $500.

New gadget on the market is just the thing to stow in your It is a washing council flat. machine which scrubs you, massages you with rubber brushes and dries you with an infra-red lamp. It's a steal at £2,500.

Fighting the Tories' Rent Bill Is Coventry Labour opposition PAGE 10 Workors Prees, Saturday June 3, 1972 By our own correspondent

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municipal tenants are watching the new Labour council to see if they are going to implement the Tory 'fair rents' Bill or match their fighting pre-election talk with action. So far the new council has made a pronouncement not on its intentions. Tenants are beginning to speak out about the question. Charlie Paynton, a 64-year-old tenant, a member of the Trans- port and General Workers' Union for 40 years and a Labour Party member, thought the council would announce its plans ATLe the meeting of Labour groups in Sheffield this month. He said: 'I believe the Labour Rents are already £4.57—and rising—o council will definitely be against putting the rents up. They must defy the Tory government's Bill.'

before discussed and we have meeting decided on it,' he said. But at a pre-election Councillor Parks, the 'You are dealing with questions no sugroup render His give of law. If you put yourself above guarantee. whole the law you invite arrest.

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Name Address rising-on Wood End Estate, Coventry, What w and because they are guilty of offen- ces under the law. 'We shall resist the Bill by all the means at our disposal.'

Charlie Paynton had different views. "The Tory rent Bill is an attack on the workers. Rents are already £4.57. The council is sup- posed to do redecorating, but this house has only been done once in 17 years! "The extra rents aren't going to go to working people for sure and I believe the Labour council will definitely be against putting the rents up. They must defy the Tory government's Bill.

"There should be Councils of Action to unite all workers who are being attacked by the Tory government. "The Industrial Relations Act is a vicious attack on the work- ing class. 'As for the TUC, they're not uniting the working class against the government. They should be forced to act and the government should be forced out. 'The next Labour government restore jobs to must first all workers at decent wages. They must remove all these Acts like the Housing Finance Act and the Industrial imme- Relations Act diately. 'They've got to have 100 per cent socialist policies—not 50-50.

All the industries must be taken over. The banks as well, because they're only being run by big profiteers. I'm totally opposed to the union leaders co-operating with the National Industrial Relations Court and paying over fines to this government. 'If the Tory government goes on getting away with this, every worker in the country will be punished,' said Charlie. Leo Dooley, unemployed an worker who also lives on the Wood End Estate, said: 'The Tory government is forc- ing councils increase to rents yearly. I think it can be for no other reason but to crush the workers. 'All the big property dealers will be able to shoot up their rents as a result. It's giving them the chance they have been wait- ing for. "The Industrial Relations Act is the way the Tories hope to get control over work- complete the ing class. It's their wav of telling the working class what they should do and what they should

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'The should enders never have paid that fine.

It was not their money to pay. It belongs to me workers 'These "leaders" ran away from against gov- The noot the lory ernment. was hoping on the Common Market the tha Issue would have been defeated and would have had to go to the country. 'The Labour MPs who voted Charlie Paynton: 'Labour must defy rents Bill' 'Councils of Action would back fined councillors' with the Tories should have been thrown out, but unfortunately they were not. 'Councils of Action embracing all workers' organizations should force the TUC to call a General Strike to get the Tories out.

"The Labour government should then nationalize the indus- tries and the workers should be given control. 'And those owners of the big monopolies and businesses should get no compensation. They haven't earned anything. 'Coventry Labour council must to abide by this "fair refuse rents" Bill. If are shouldn't pay. The fined they Councils of Action would sup- port them in this,' said Leo.

ust defy rents Bill'

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WESTWARD. As Channel ex- cept: 12.30 Something to Sing About. 12.55 Farmhouse kitchen.

1.20 Homes of History. 1.35 Farm and Country News. 12.05 Faith for Life. 12.10 Weather. TYNE TEES: 10.20 Farming.

10.45 Talking Hands. 11.00 Ser- vice. 12.05 Music 12.30 Camp- ing and Caravanning. 12.55 Farm- Farming house Kitchen. 1.25 Outlook. 1.55 Out of Town. 2.15 Jobs. 2.20 Snooker. 3.15 Film: 'Jazzboat'. 4.40 London. 7.55 10.00 Film: 'Roman Holiday'. London. 11.15 Randall and Hop- kirk. 12.15 The Love Unfeigned, ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00 Service.

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BBC 1

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5.50 Dr. Who.

6.15 WONDERFUL WORLD

OF DISNEY.

"THE LONGEST

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THE FAMILY.

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9.05 Open University. 3.00 Film: "Tammy and the Doctor. 4.25 Tutankhamun's Cricket. 6.35 Egypt. 6.55 Man Alive. 7.45 NEWS, SPORT, Weather.

8.00 TROOPING THE COL-

8.30 ONE PAIR OF EYES.

Lord Caradon - Race Against Time.

9.15 SOUNDS FOR SATUR-

BBC 1

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6.15 THE ORIGINS OF

CHRISTIANITY.

6.50 SONGS OF PRAISE.

THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

7.25 Music Hall.

FILM: THE ROOTS OF

8.15

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• Trevor Howard, Juliette Greco, Errol Flynn. Man obsessed with preservation of African elephant, be- their plight lieving that reflects mankind's threat- • extinction in the ened nuclear age. 10.15 NEWS, weather. OMNIBUS. Dorothy 10.30 - Yorkshire Heathcote drama teacher.

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LIVER.

ITV 12.10 Weather. All Regions as BBC 1 except: Wales: 1.25 Farming. 2.55 Spy Trap. 3.45 Top of the Form.

4.25 4.05 Laurel and Hardy. : Urdd Jubilee Eisteddfod.

The 6.15 Hen Allorau. 12.12 News.

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N Ireland: News, weather.

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9.05 Open University. 1.50 Review, Cricket. 7.00 News weather. 7.25 MUSIC ON 2. Johann Sebastian Bach's six con- certos. 8.20

ABOUT

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US. Song of the Sirens.

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ITV

11.40 10.50 Thunderbirds. Sesame Street. 12.40 Jackson Five. 1.10 News. 1.15 World of Sport: 1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00 Rac- ing from Thirsk; 1.45, 2.15, 2.45 Racing from Stratford; • 3.10 'Acropolis Rally' from Greece, Show Jumping 'Bath and West Show'; 3.55 Scores, Results, News; 4.00 Wrestling from Har- rogate; 4.55 Results Service. 5.10 The Train Now Standing. 5.40 News. 5.45 Sale of the Century.

6.15

THE

ROLF HARRIS

SHOW.

7.00

NEW SCOTLAND YARD.

"The Wrong "Un'. 8.00

SATURDAY VARIETY

starring Hylda Baker. 9.00

FILM: 'CASH ON DE-

MAND'. Peter Cushing, Andre Morell. Bank man- ager's is threat- wife ened. ...

10.30 NEWS.

10.40 OPEN NIGHT with Mike Scott.

11.30 SHOWS PROMISE -

SHOULD GO FAR with Austin Mitchell.

12.05 IS IT A HANDICAP?

DAY: The 5th Dimension.

10.00 PETS AND VETS.

10.15 THE GOLDEN BOWL.

Part 5 Maggie. 10.55 NEWS, Weather.

11.00 FILM NIGHT.

11.30

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MOVIE:

"THE

'BAD

LORD

BYRON. Dennis Price, Joan Mai Zetterling, Greenwood.

ITV

10.30 Yesterdays. 11.00 Service.

12.05 Farmhouse Kitchen. 12.30 Something to Sing About. 12.55 Out of Town. 1.15 Stingray. 1.45 University Challenge. 2.15 Sports- world '72. 3.15 Jason King. 4.10 Catweazle. 4.40 5.35 Follyfoot. 6.05 News.

6.15 PRIVATE VIEWS.

7.00 STARS ON SUNDAY.

7.25

DOCTOR IN CHARGE.

Face the Music. FILM: 'CAPRICE'. Doris 7.55 Day, Richard Harris. Comedy. Industrial de- signer sells secret formula to rival concern.

9.50 POLICE 5.

10.00 NEWS.

10.15 BEN SPRAY. Cynical young man seeking affec- tion and understanding in contrasting worlds and bedsitter-

11.15 MUSIC IN THE ROUND.

11.45 SHORT STORY. My Secret Husband.

12.15 IS IT A HANDICAP?

series). International cab- aret from Paris starring Marcel Amont, Francoise Hardy. 10.10

TUTANKHAMUN'S

EGYPT.

10.30 THE LOTUS EATERS.

The Fascinating Couple. :11.20 NEWS, weather.

11.25 UP SUNDAY.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday June By Ian Yeats AFTER an hour of talks wit Secretary Maurice Macmillan and General Workers' Union le he had high hopes of a solutic crisis. Macmillan urged him to time in getting waste no down discussions with to employers in port the new dock committee ioint on labour. Although he was hopeful some- By our own reporter LEBANESE premier • Saeb Salam sat couest not take government could not action against Palestinian com- mandos based in the Lebanon so long as they acted peace- fully and did not break the country's laws. Salam was replying to questions on Israeli threats to take strong action against the Lebanon unless the government clamped down on Palestinian organizations.

The Israeli government has it holds the Lebanon said directly responsible for the killing and wounding of passen- Lydda | airport gers at Wednesday. The Israeli threats herald new punitive expeditions against the peasants living across the border from Israel. Their homes and farms have already been attacked in previous Israeli efforts to sup- press the commando movement.

Salam claimed that the three young Japanese who carried out the Lydda attack had never been near the Lebanon, contrary to what the Israelis claimed.

LATE NEWS

THE Amalgamated Union of En- gineering Workers will face an unfair industrial practice' charge in the National Industrial Rela- tions Court on Monday. The case arises from a 13-week strike by welders at a Hartlepool factory, Expanded Metal Products Ltd.

owns the The company, which at Hartlepool, Stanton works will seek an order against the union and three officials.

The AUEW men named in the application are Mr F. P. Rich- mond,_Hartlepool district secre- tary, Mr R. Barnfather, chairman of the district committee and Mr A. Smith, the welders' shop steward. BRITAIN'S gold and currency reserves rose by f7m in May bringing the total reserves to £2,744m. Reserves have now risen each month since Septem- ber 1970, shortly after the Tories came to power. The rise corresponds almost directly to the rise in unemployment.

day June 3, 1972 lks with Tory Employment millan yesterday, Transport Jnion leader, Jack Jones, said I solution to dockland's jobs . come from these thing would discussions, Jones told reporters conference "The delegate that: really wants to feel this com- mittee is going to have authority drive, and means what it and will not end up like says, and so many other committees of inquiry. trying to find 'We will be a satisfactory position to report to the conference on June 14.

The chairmen of port authori- ties will sit with top-level union the new joint com- officials on mittee and Jones said they were wielded 'enormous who men power in the ports' He added: 'Port authorities are licensing authorities for steve- doring companies. And they con- trol everyone registered for dock employment in the port 'authority area' Jones hopes that the chairmen will be able to persuade em- ployers to show 'greater respon- sibility' in their labour policies.

But their promise to put pressure on employers can be no substitute for the cast-iron guarantees being demanded by the rank and file, particularly in Liverpool. at present stuffing Workers containers are paid up to a third less than registered dockers, and there are bound to be difficulties in persuading port bosses to pay the higher rates. There are likely problems in per- to be added suading terminal operators not directly controlled by the port authorities. Anything less than a concrete guarantee of jobs will open the door to union collaboration with the employers in their ports modernization plans, which have already sent thousands of men to the dole queues. Macmillan also asked Jones to influence the tally clerks to call off their strike due to start on Monday. Jones said he was making 'special efforts' to bring about a settlement.

WEATHER

WEST to North-west airstream There covers the British Isles.

will be bright or sunny intervals in many districts, but North and will North-west Scotland be mainly cloudy. expected in all Showers are being areas, the showers pro- longed in North and North-west Scotland, and heavy at times in other districts. Continuing rather cool. •Outlook for Sunday and Monday: Showers heavy and prolonged in places, but also sunny intervals.

Rather cool in all areas.

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By our own reporter LONDON dockers were bitter yesterday about the decision to postpone the national docks strike. A Royal group shop steward picketing the gate of Stratford's Midland Cold Storage depot told me: 'I think Thursday's delegate conference postponed the strike because they could see the port employers were willing to talk.

'But they've really got to come up with something this time.

isn't It isn't money and it holidays we want. It's jobs, jobs, jobs all the way down the line.

'Unless the employers come up with something concrete we'll all be out on strike in 14 days' time, promises are not enough.?

Sixty day would lorries normally be queuing to get into the depot. But yesterday only five lorries crossed the picket line.

said: We The steward are doing far more damage with our "blacking" down here than thèy are up at Liverpool. 'We can't understand why they haven't brought us in front of the industrial court. FOUR-AND-A-HALF thousand e officially locked out yesterday at head, Co Durham, works. The men had reimposed sanc tions in support of their pay claim earlier in the week.

The factory had been involved in the area-wide work-to-rule for the claim, which began on May 15. However it had soon been called off for negotiations to begin on a modified claim.

negotiations When these broke down, the men decided to return to the sanctions. T. Bickle Assistant convenor We are told Workers Press: accepting the lock-out. 'We don't intend to take any action over it other than what we decide with the area officials.'

Brannan strikers STRIKERS at Brannan's thermo- meter factory, Cleator Moor Cumberland, yesterday marked the first year of their strike.

Preston Amalgamated Union 'of Engineering Workers mem- bers who have contributed to the strike fund are appalled by a suggestion being made by Work- district AUEW people ington that the strike levy be stopped.

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1-223-4434 N-830l , at Chobham Farm container depot yesterday.

'The dockers have always been a hard nut to crack, and I think they don't want to antagonize us so that they can have a go at the railwaymen on their own.'

MEANWHILE at Chobham Farm depot, T&GWU drivers employed yesterday terminal at mounted a counter-picket to the dockers urging truckers to cross the picket line. SOUTHERN Stevedores, on the Royal docks, shut down-throw- ing 1,250 into the unattached labour pool. On June 23, G. Beare and Son will close, putting 55 tally clerks out of work.

A MASS meeting of about 1,000 Southampton dockers yesterday unanimously voted to accept the dock delegates' recommendation to postpone the national docks strike for 15 days. Their delegates told them that question of stuffing and the stripping of containers did not really affect them at Southamp- ton. usand engineering workers were rday at Clarke Chapman's Gates-

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The electricians in the manu- facturing assembly plants want separate pay talks outside the overall agreement signed in the two plants last year. FRANK McMANUS, Westminster.

MP for Fermanagh and South has backed the Pro- Tyrone, visional IRA campaign for a new a nine-county Ulster based on regional parliament. The scheme was first put for- ward by the Provisionals last August. Provisionals to stop talks with the North THE Provisional IRA said in a statement from Dublin yester- day the fight in Ulster would continue. It added, that secret talks held the last six over months with various groups in the the North, including would British government, cease. The statement, the first since the Officials' ceasefire, said the introduction of special courts had made it impossible for talks to continue.

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